Quotes about Connection

Most women prefer circles of sharing to pyramids and hierarchies. They prefer conversation to construction. They will usually choose nurturance and empathy over competition and climbing. They will normally choose connection over simple performance games.

I think one of my best qualities is my ability to empathize with people. Perhaps it's because my journey has been so bumpy.

I am just a normal person, and it is normal to have quality time with my family.

Well, there's that beautiful quote about Loki from the comics, which is that he's the god of outcasts, and I think he said 'They see themselves in me, and I in them.' I think that's a big part of why I love Loki, but also, you know, he is isolated.

We're not separate races. There's only one human race.

When somebody comes across as authentic and genuine and sweet, people just want to spend time with that person.

It's good to have genuine people around you, who are there for you when you need them.

You give before you get.

What ever disunites man from God, also disunites man from man.

I've had a good life, and was born to and among people I've admired and loved.

Believing in him is not the same as believing things about him such as that he was born of a virgin and raised Lazarus from the dead. Instead, it is a matter of giving our hearts to him, of come hell or high water putting our money on him, the way a child believes in a mother or a father, the way a mother or a father believes in a child.

My story is important not because it is mine, God knows, but because if I tell it anything like right, the chances are you will recognize that in many ways it is also yours… it is precisely through these stories in all their particularity, as I have long believed and often said, that God makes himself known to each of us more powerfully and personally. If this is true, it means that to lose track of our stories is to be profoundly impoverished not only humanly but also spiritually.